University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Position(s)
Pediatric Infectious Disease

Other Related Positions Currently Held
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, University of Minnesota

Director, Global Pediatrics Program, University of Minnesota

Pediatric Epidemiologist

Board Certifications
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics

Sees Patients At
- University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview (Global Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases) 
- Pediatric Specialty Clinic (Minneapolis)

Clinical Interests
Education in Global Health and Infectious Disease
Infectious Disease
Malaria-Immunology, Clinical Disease, Epidemiology
Parasitic Disease
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Tropical Diseases

Education
Medical School
University of Michigan

Site of Internship and Residency
University of Michigan (Internal Medicine and Pediatrics)

Site of Fellowship
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio (Pediatric Infectious Disease)
 
Awards and Honors
2002, Glennan Teaching Fellow, Case Western Reserve University
2004, Young Investigator Award, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
2004, Best Contribution Award for Teaching Excellence, Case Western Reserve University
2005, Outstanding Contribution to Resident Education, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital

Research Interest(s)
Malaria immunology
Epidemiology
Education in Global Health and Infectious Disease
Malaria

Selected Recent Publications
Idro R, Aloyo J, Mayende L, Bitarakwate E, John CC and Kivumbi GW. Severe malaria in children in areas with low, moderate and high transmission intensity in Uganda. Trop Med Int Health (in press).

John CC, McHugh MM, Moormann AM, Sumba PO, Ofulla AV. Low prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum infection among asymptomatic individuals in a highland area of Kenya. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (in press).

Ofulla AV, Moormann AM, Embury PE, Kazura JW, Sumba PO, John CC. Age-related differences in detection of P. falciparum infection by PCR and microscopy in a malaria holoendemic area of Kenya. Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2005;99:431-35.

John CC, Moormann AM, Pregibon DL, Sumba PO, McHugh MM, Narum DL, Lanar DE, Schluchter MD, Kazura JW. High-level antibodies to multiple pre-erythocytic antigens correlate with protection from infection. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2005 Jul;73(1):222-228.

Chelimo K, Ofulla AV, Narum DL, Kazura JW, Lanar DE, John CC. Antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum antigens vary by age and antigen in children in a malaria holoendemic area of Kenya. Ped Inf Dis J (in press).

Idro R, Bitarakwate E, Tumwesegire S, John CC. Clinical manifestations of severe malaria in the highlands of southwestern Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2005;72:561-67.

John CC, Moormann AM, Sumba PO, Ofulla AV, Pregibon DC, Kazura JW. IFN-g responses to P. falciparum liver-stage antigen-1 and thrombospondin-related adhesive protein and their relationship to age, transmission intensity and protection against malaria. Infect Immun 2004 ;72:5135-42.

John CC, Koech DK, Sumba PO, Ouma JH. Risk of P. falciparum infection during a malaria epidemic in highland Kenya, 1997. Acta Tropica 2004;92:55-61.

John CC, O'Donnell RA, Sumba PO, Moormann AM, deKoenig-Ward TF, King CL, Kazura JW, Crabb BS. Evidence that invasion-inhibitory antibodies specific for MSP-119 can play a protective role against blood-stage Plasmodium falciparum infection in individuals in a malaria endemic area of Africa. J Immunology 2004;173:666-672.